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S.B. Moran is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island in the United States. Their research spans several fields of study, primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's work covers subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

Key research topics addressed by S.B. Moran include:

  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Coastal and Marine Management

Recent papers demonstrate a thematic emphasis on marine and coastal systems as well as environmental processes. These include:

  • "Molybdenum accumulation in sediments: A quantitative indicator of hypoxic water conditions in Narragansett Bay, RI" (2022, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science)
  • "Decrease in 230 Th in the Amundsen Basin since 2007: far-field effect of increased scavenging on the shelf?" (2020, Ocean science)
  • "Pseudopsocus rostocki, Kolbe, 1882 (Psocodea: Elipsocidae) new to Scotland" (2020, The Entomologist s monthly magazine)
  • "Thank You to Our 2019 Reviewers" (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • "Thank You to Our 2020 Reviewers" (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)

S.B. Moran has published most frequently in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Ocean science
  • The Entomologist s monthly magazine

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Peter G. Brewer
  • D. P. Chambers
  • Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs
  • Robert D. Hetland
  • Kristopher B. Karnauskas

Best Publications

  • Uranium and thorium isotopic and concentration measurements by magnetic sector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Chuan Chou Shen;R. Lawrence Edwards;Hai Cheng;Jeffrey A. Dorale

  • An assessment of particulate organic carbon to thorium-234 ratios in the ocean and their impact on the application of 234Th as a POC flux proxy

    K.O. Buesseler;C.R. Benitez-Nelson;S.B. Moran;A. Burd

  • An intercomparison of cross-flow filtration techniques used for sampling marine colloids: Overview and organic carbon results

    K.O. Buesseler;J.E. Bauer;R.F. Chen;T.I. Eglinton

  • An increasing CO2 sink in the Arctic Ocean due to sea‐ice loss

    Nicholas R. Bates;S. Bradley Moran;Dennis A. Hansell;Jeremy T. Mathis

  • Measurement of attogram quantities of 231Pa in dissolved and particulate fractions of seawater by isotope dilution thermal ionization mass spectroscopy.

    Chuan Chou Shen;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;S. Bradley Moran

  • Seasonal changes in groundwater input to a well‐mixed estuary estimated using radium isotopes and implications for coastal nutrient budgets

    R. P. Kelly;S. B. Moran

  • Thorium speciation in seawater

    P.H. Santschi;J.W. Murray;M. Baskaran;C.R. Benitez-Nelson

  • Seasonal changes in POC export flux in the Chukchi Sea and implications for water column-benthic coupling in Arctic shelves

    S.B. Moran;R.P. Kelly;K. Hagstrom;J.N. Smith

  • Evidence for aggregation and export of cyanobacteria and nano-eukaryotes from the Sargasso Sea euphotic zone

    M. W. Lomas;S. B. Moran

  • Differences in seawater particulate organic carbon concentration in samples collected using small- and large-volume methods: the importance of DOC adsorption to the filter blank

    S.B Moran;M.A Charette;S.M Pike;C.A Wicklund

  • Transformations of biogenic particulates from the pelagic to the deep ocean realm

    P.W. Boyd;N.D. Sherry;J.A. Berges;J.K.B. Bishop

  • Size-fractionated 234 Th in continental shelf waters off New England: Implications for the role of colloids in oceanic trace metal scavenging

    S. Bradley Moran;Ken O. Buesseler

  • 234Th/238U disequilibrium in the central Arctic Ocean: implications for particulate organic carbon export

    S.B. Moran;K.M. Ellis;J.N. Smith

  • 230Th and 231Pa on GEOTRACES GA03, the U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic transect, and implications for modern and paleoceanographic chemical fluxes

    Christopher T. Hayes;Robert F. Anderson;Martin Q. Fleisher;Kuo Fang Huang

  • Below the disappearing marshes of an urban estuary: historic nitrogen trends and soil structure

    Cathleen Wigand;Charles T. Roman;Earl Davey;Mark Stolt

  • Does 234Th/238U disequilibrium provide an accurate record of the export flux of particulate organic carbon from the upper ocean?

    S. B. Moran;S. E. Weinstein;H. N. Edmonds;J. N. Smith

  • as a tracer of particulate organic carbon export in the subarctic northeast Pacific Ocean

    Matthew A. Charette;S. Bradley Moran;James K.B. Bishop

  • Accelerated drawdown of meridional overturning in the late-glacial Atlantic triggered by transient pre-H event freshwater perturbation

    Ian Robert Hall;S. B. Moran;Rainer Zahn;Rainer Zahn;Paul C. Knutz

  • Dissolved and particulate 231 Pa and 230 Th in the Atlantic Ocean: constraints on intermediate/deep water age, boundary scavenging, and 231 Pa/ 230 Th fractionation

    S.B. Moran;C.-C. Shen;H.N. Edmonds;S.E. Weinstein

  • Rates of particle scavenging and particulate organic carbon export estimated using 234Th as a tracer in the subtropical and equatorial Atlantic Ocean

    Matthew A. Charette;S.Bradley Moran

  • Arrival of the Fukushima radioactivity plume in North American continental waters

    John N. Smith;Robin M. Brown;William J. Williams;Marie Robert

Frequent Co-Authors

John N. Smith
John N. Smith Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Michael W. Lomas
Michael W. Lomas Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Nicholas R. Bates
Nicholas R. Bates Arizona State University
Dennis A. Hansell
Dennis A. Hansell University of Miami
Matthew A. Charette
Matthew A. Charette Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Chuan-Chou Shen
Chuan-Chou Shen National Taiwan University
Jeremy T. Mathis
Jeremy T. Mathis National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University

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